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Pain relief after a short course of palliative radiotherapy in pancreatic cancer, the Academic Medical Center (AMC) experience

Gati EbrahimiDepartment of radiation oncology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Coen R. N. RaschDepartment of radiation oncology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
&
Geertjan van TienhovenDepartment of radiation oncology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pages 697-700 | Published online: 20 Nov 2017

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